Amazon has refreshed its $89 Fire HD 8 tablet, bringing Alexa performance to the system together with a slew of spec upgrades. Now you can work together with Amazon’s voice assistant to regulate media playback, launch apps and video games, verify the climate, set a reminder, discover information, and extra.
As for the specs, the Hearth HD Eight has the identical Eight-inch 1200 x 800 show as final yr’s mannequin, however you now get 1.5GB of RAM, double the storage at 16GB or 32GB, and a bigger 4750mAh battery that may last as long as 12 hours on a full cost. The pill is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core CPU, and can be obtainable in Black, Magenta, Blue, and Tangerine colour choices. There’s additionally a 2MP digital camera on the again that allows you to document 720p video, a VGA entrance digital camera, and dual-band Wi-Fi.
Amazon has steadily added more features to Alexa over the course of the yr, and made the voice assistant platform obtainable for third-parties, resulting in devices like the Triby.
The Alexa expertise on the Hearth HD Eight will not be as seamless as that on an Echo because the pill does not have an always-on listening mode, however by bringing the voice assistant to its finances tablets, Amazon will get to considerably widen Alexa’s userbase and improve its AI smarts. Amazon has talked about that the 2015 Hearth HD Eight, the $50 Hearth, and Hearth HD 10 tablets will obtain Alexa performance with an upcoming software program replace to Hearth OS 5 within the coming months.
The all-new Hearth HD Eight is now up for pre-order, with the 16GB mannequin retailing for $89 and the 32GB model for $119. That is for the editions with lock display advertisements. For those who do not need to see advertisements, you will need to shell out $104 and $134 respectively. Amazon will begin delivery on September 21.